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  1. 04-16-2018, 05:59 AM #1
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    Painting frogs

    What is the best paint/method for painting hollow frogs? Anyone done these?
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    #2 04-16-2018, 12:36 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by bkeenom View Post
    What is the best paint/method for painting hollow frogs? Anyone done these?
    When I looked into it basically you do it about like you would a crankbait. D2T as a topcoat as well. I need to experiment very soon.
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    #3 04-16-2018, 03:00 PM
    I have several frogs that a well-known painter did for me - back before you couldn't get a sexy shad or bluegill colored frog - when I went back to him - he had stopped and said that the paints he had to use for the plastic frogs were very toxic and harder to ventilate so he stopped painting them - so I guess I have some collectors items -

    That being said - there is a place online - Stankx Lures - which offers custom painted frog so they have a way to do it...
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    #4 04-16-2018, 05:51 PM
    I think you could do the same as the below ?????



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    #5 04-16-2018, 07:41 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Pokie Pa View Post
    I think you could do the same as the below ?????



    No, that paint will not stick to the vinyl/rubber or whatever the frogs are made of. I have every color they make. Works really well on actual soft plastic swim baits though.

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    #6 04-21-2018, 07:14 AM
    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Perry View Post
    When I looked into it basically you do it about like you would a crankbait. D2T as a topcoat as well. I need to experiment very soon.
    I don't paint many crankbaits and have never worked with Devcon. Is it flexible? Would have to be extremely flexible for hollow frog application.
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    #7 04-21-2018, 01:09 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by bkeenom View Post
    I don't paint many crankbaits and have never worked with Devcon. Is it flexible? Would have to be extremely flexible for hollow frog application.

    It works is all I can say from the ones I have seen. Go easy on the thickness.
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    #8 04-21-2018, 01:26 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by Mark Perry View Post
    It works is all I can say from the ones I have seen. Go easy on the thickness.
    Good deal. I will spray with createx and finish with 2t. Will post results.
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    #9 04-21-2018, 05:02 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by bkeenom View Post
    Good deal. I will spray with createx and finish with 2t. Will post results.
    Please do
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    #10 05-07-2018, 08:04 PM
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    #11 05-09-2018, 05:29 AM
    Sanded lightly and painted with createx. Finished with Devcon 2T. After 24 hours it was flexible but peeled off pretty easily. May be a trick to it but it didn't work for me.
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    #12 05-15-2018, 09:48 PM
    Quote Originally Posted by bkeenom View Post
    No, that paint will not stick to the vinyl/rubber or whatever the frogs are made of. I have every color they make. Works really well on actual soft plastic swim baits though.

    Awesome looking swimbaits
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